Rose v Secretary of State for Health and Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

Fam Law Rep. 2002:2:962-80.

Abstract

KIE: Court Decison: [2002] 2 Family Law Reports 962; 2002 July 26 (date of decision). The Queen's Bench Division held that Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights included the right of an individual to know details about his or her identity, including information about biological parents. Two persons, one an adult and the other a child, both born through artificial insemination from anonymous donors brought suit against the Secretary of State challenging his failure to promulgate regulations facilitating the distribution of information about sperm donors to persons using that sperm. The Court held that the persons had a right to obtain information concerning their biological origins, but did not decide whether the Secretary of State had violated these rights.

Publication types

  • Legal Case

MeSH terms

  • Access to Information / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Child
  • Confidentiality / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Humans
  • Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Legislation as Topic
  • Male
  • Spermatozoa*
  • Tissue Donors*
  • United Kingdom